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Friendly Union Society records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1122
Abstract
The Friendly Union Society was formed in Charleston in 1813. It consisted of a membership of no more than fifty men and no less than five. It was formed for the relief of orphans and widows in the community; and to provide for the general welfare of the community as a whole. It also served as a burial society; providing a place for interment, as well as tending and upkeep of the cemetery. This society remained in Charleston in varying degrees of activity through 1981. The collection consists...
Dates:
1889-1981, undated
Humane and Friendly Society records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1114
Abstract
The Humane and Friendly Society was a benevolent society of free African American men in Charleston, South Carolina. The Society served as a way to provide for widows, orphaned children, a burial place for its members, and it also arranged apprenticeships and educational opportunities for African American men.The collection consists of administrative materials of the Humane and Friendly Society including meeting minutes, correspondence, and membership lists. Topics of discussion...
Dates:
1934-1966, 1981
Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract
Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates:
1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999
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- African American cemeteries -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
- African American fraternal organizations 1
- African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
- Burial insurance -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Burial insurance -- United States 1
- Edisto Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
- Freedmen -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Kiawah Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Seabrook Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- South Carolina -- History 1
- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- administrative records 1
- bylaws (administrative records) 1
- constitutions 1
- financial records 1
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- Names
- Andell, Charles John, 1837-1876 1
- Andell, William, 1845-1932 1
- Camp Saint Christopher (Seabrook Island, S.C.) 1
- Carawan, Guy 1
- Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
- Friendly Union Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Friendly Union Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Hebron Presbyterian Church (Johns Island, S.C.) 1
- Humane and Friendly Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
- Mitchell, Julian A. (Julian Augustus), 1836-1907 1
- Morawetz, Victor, 1859-1938 1
- Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association 1
- Pivnick, Esther Kaplan, 1913-2001 1
- Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
- Schaffer, Ferdinand, 1831-1913 1
- Seabrook Island Natural History Group (S.C.) 1
- Seabrook, William, Sr., 1773-1836 1
- St. John's Parish (S.C.) 1
- Stringfellow, Elizabeth Hamilton, 1920- 1
- United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands 1
- Washington, John Henry, Reverend 1 ∧ less
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